Posted on 06/13/2019 6:11:17 PM PDT by nwrep
Sparkle Lynn Moore, son of Michele Porter
Pride week in Portland has always been an important holiday in Michelle Porter's family. With two of her five children identifying as queer, Porter says, the annual event—with its colorful parades and performances—has become a fun way to celebrate her kids and support the local LGBTQ+ community.
This year, however, Porter says she's afraid to bring her family to any Portland Pride events.
That's because a few alt-right bloggers have used photos and videos of her 10-year-old son dressed in drag to spread anti-LGBTQ+ messaging across the internet, exposing Porter and her family to death threats and violent hate speech.
"It's so damaging and so, so ugly," says Porter, who hasn't slept the past few nights out of fear and anxiety about her family's safety. "And for this to take place during Pride—a time when I should be celebrating my kid and letting him have fun—it couldn't be worse."
Porter's son has been targeted for putting on drag performances in Portland.
Porter says her son, a "self-confident, flamboyant kid" who has presented himself as gender non-conforming since birth, became interested in drag two years ago after watching RuPaul's Drag Race. After learning that Portland had a thriving drag scene of its own, he begged his mom to take him to a show—and she complied.
"As soon as Sparkle saw them perform, he wanted to be a part of it," Porter says. She asked the Mercury to only refer to her son by his drag name, Sparkle Lynn More, for privacy.
Not long after, Sparkle began participating in family-friendly drag shows with local drag queens. Porter says the local drag community's support of her son's work has been "life-giving."
On June 7, alt-right blog Gateway Pundit released a transphobic diatribe against a family-friendly Portland Pride event featuring Sparkle that took place later that day at Friendly House. The disturbing blog post sexualized children who dress in the opposite gender's clothes and scolded parents who let their kids do such a thing. It also shared photos from Sparkle's Instagram account, which is controlled by Porter.
In lieu of police protection, Porter has found security in another organization, one whose history is built on systematic indifference by law enforcement.
"The queer community has been amazing," Porter says. "They're used to the police not stepping up to protect their community. So they know how to take care of each other."
They just THRIVE on attention; don’t they!
Has Honey Boo Boo moved on to greater things these days?
Funny thing is, if the commie left ever does ultimately succeed in completely destroying our country and “fundamentally transform” it to a communist system, these freaks will be among the first to ‘go’. Commies have no tolerance for this sort of thing. They’re only using now as a tool for bringing the country down.
Why would any kid want to look like Shirley Maclaine?
Welcome to Weimerica. These sick freaks are completely in charge. Capital gains tax cuts are not going to solve this.
I was thinking the same thing this morning. It’s time to split. All the flyover States, including/plus AL, GA, TX(gotta have ports) can remain the USA and the rest can be the SSA - Socialist States of America. We’re building walls in the wrong place.
There’s no fixing these people. Of course every flyover State has cities and those will need to be purged of the freaks and pinkos.
I wonder who or what is grooming this kid, he is too young to have ideas about sexual identity unless someone is giving them to him.
The average Portlander reading this article will be filled with disgust and righteous indignation at Gateway Pundit, the “alt-right blog” for harassing this kid.
Wanting to protect a child from abuse is harassment?
We no longer live in a country with shared cultural values, so they would not consider it abuse, and yes, they would consider the GP blog to be harassment.
“With two of her five children identifying as queer...”
She’s no different than a child molester.
Telling me your kid is “identifies as queer” is the same as telling me your dog wanted to wear that pink sweater. You’re really just telling me that you are insane.
“The disturbing blog post sexualized children who dress in the opposite gender’s clothes...”
NO. The pervert parents sexualized their own children and then pimped them out to dance for other sick pedophiles.
When Sparkle turns 16, he’s going to cut your head off in your sleep Mom.
Not Guilty!
They’ll never leave us alone because normal people are a reminder to them of their own illness and sin. They think that if we all were forced to celebrate them, then their conscience wouldn’t bother them any more, but of course it won’t work. So next they’ll decide they have to lock us up or “re-educate” us, and when that doesn’t work, it will be camps and death squads.
The MAGA hat question infers that calling ourselves Alt Right is the same thing. It isn’t.
We’re not communicating here, so lets simply go our separate ways.
Take care.
Yes that is true. Good point. It’s very sad.
Once again, you simply do not get the damage the claim of being Alt Right does to our cause.
This isn’t about the other side damning us based on the use of the Alt Right name. I’ve not heard them do that. Trying to claim that’s why I’m saying what I am saying, is silly.
It’s about the contribution our use of it provides to confirming the charge that we are far right like Hitler.
If the avoidance of that isn’t important to you, fine. Go ahead and damage our cause over an idiotic label some of us have chosen to place on ourselves.
This is worse than someone calling us Hitler, because it contributes to a conclusion people can make on their own.
The Left didn’t charge it based on the name. The public connects the dots themselves.
Yes, you are free to confirm that we are far far right.
It won’t help our cause, but hey, you’re free to do it and be proud of it.
It’s not that these indoctrinated kids simple “dress up,” but they act out the part in often lewd, obvious ways, twerking and hip-pumping that his completely inappropriate for A CHILD.
It’s not that these indoctrinated kids simple “dress up,” but they act out the part in often lewd, obvious ways, twerking and hip-pumping that his completely inappropriate for A CHILD.
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